Heartbreak Cove by Lily Everett

Author:Lily Everett
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781466808096
Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Chapter Fourteen

“Why did I agree to this?” Sam wondered aloud as a bead of sweat trickled a ticklish path between his shoulder blades. “Kissing every day, sure. A picnic with the kid, fine. Even a date. I can do that. But whatever happened to dinner and a movie?”

“There’s no movie theater on Sanctuary Island,” Andie pointed out languidly from the prow of the rowboat. “And I told you I’d take a turn at the oars when you got tired.”

Sam lifted the oars from the water and let them cross over his lap so he could rest his elbows on them. “Yeah,” he said, eyeing her long, athletic form reclined against the cushions with an appreciative eye. “You look like you’re ready to jump up from there and start rowing.”

Guilt stirred across Andie’s beautiful face. “I’m sorry. I thought this would be fun, but if you want to head back to shore we could just go to the Firefly and have lunch.”

It was the damnedest thing, but Sam would do anything to take that look off Andie’s face. “Nah, that’s all right,” he said, dipping the oars in and pushing the rowboat forward across Lantern Lake’s placid surface. “It’s just hot out here, and I’m in a mood. Ignore me.”

It was hot, the warmest day they’d seen all spring, but it wasn’t the cheerful sunshine beating down on Sam’s head and illuminating every pale freckle on Andie’s creamy skin that had him in this ugly mood. No, that was all thanks to another cryptic text from Lucas, back home. The cops had been by again, looking for Sam.

It was an unpleasant reminder that no matter how perfect the last few days had been, no matter how much he wanted to change his life—he was still caught in the tangled web of his past choices. And if he wasn’t careful, those choices would chase him all the way to Sanctuary Island.

For the thousandth time, he told himself he should quit while he was ahead, before any of the crap in his life touched Andie or Caitlin. It would be the right thing to do, and he knew it. But as he studied the concerned look on Andie’s beautiful face, Sam despaired. He couldn’t pull away from her now. He couldn’t bear to hurt her like that. Even the fact that he’d let his dark mood affect this date with Andie made Sam hate himself.

“I don’t want to ignore you,” Andie protested, sitting up and gripping the sides of the boat as it rocked. “I want to know what’s going on with you.”

“I’m just worried about Queenie,” he settled on, grimacing at his own cowardice. “She’s not progressing as well as I’d hoped.”

“I thought things were getting better, now that she and Lucky are joined at the hip.”

“Lucky” was what they’d all started calling the rescued colt once it became clear that his injuries would have been life threatening if Sam hadn’t found him in time and delivered him into Dr. Fairfax’s very capable hands.

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